You will need a copy of mencoder. For Windows users, I recommend getting mencoder here: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.phpPlace mencoder.exe in the same location as zsnesw.exe, you do not need any codecs or other movie programs installed.
Linux users, having mencoder in your path is fine.

If you want to compress the outputted audio, or compress it before it goes into the video as opposed to during, you will need a copy of LAME.
If you use Windows, you must get LAME from here: http://geocities.com/joecool22us/lame.zipAny other copy of LAME for Windows will not work due to a bug in LAME.

Before you are able to dump an AVI, you must have recorded a movie first, it converts movies, it does not just dump video on the fly.

To play back movies, you'll either need the proper codecs or a video player with built in decoding of the video mode you selected.
I recommend getting mplayer which decodes anything created with mencoder. For Windows, you can get mplayer here: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php You can download the GUI version.

Advanced users can edit zmovie.cfg and tweak the settings if they want, and even use something other than mencoder and LAME as long as it supports encoding via stdin and you set it up properly.

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Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:34 am

Agozer

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Deathlike2 wrote:

I believe H264 requires a beefy CPU and/or a video card that supports it in hardware (currently this is in the newest hardware, X1xxx series for ATI and 7xxx series for NVidia)

I'd say that this is not true.

Well, it does require a fast CPU, but certainly not decoding in hardware.

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Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:37 am

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quicktime 7 has it. i THINK it was quicktime that developed the codec.

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Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:38 am

Deathlike2

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Agozer wrote:

Deathlike2 wrote:

I believe H264 requires a beefy CPU and/or a video card that supports it in hardware (currently this is in the newest hardware, X1xxx series for ATI and 7xxx series for NVidia)

I'd say tht this is not true.

Well, it does require a fast CPU, but certainly not decoding in hardware.

That's why I said and/or... certainly a video card was ideally meant to process this kind of info... sadly this format is very suited for the Mac architecture.. thus needing extra CPU power to work with it.

This means that if you want the audio and video seperately the audio will be smaller. If you're putting the audio in the video, it was always compressed, but now the audio outputted before the merge will be compressed, good if you dont have a lot of hard drive space and can't have such large temp files.